10 Video Games You Only Like Because Everyone Else Does

Everyone always talks about how much they love being able to mess around causing havoc in The Sims, but actually playing through the game without any cheats over a long period of time is one of the most frustrating things you can ever do.

I see the appeal of the series: being a God in control of your own imagined community of people made in your own image is a great concept - it's just a shame that the gameplay itself is so boring.

Working the daily grind, observing from afar and just trying to get your family to go a whole day without wetting themselves is an arduous chore. Likewise, it's telling that the best Sims stories come from people purposefully trying to break the game by creating ridiculous situations, rather than actually adhering to the rules.

The appeal of the series and the fandom it's amassed is definitely down to what you can do in The Sims in theory - yet I'd argue the vast amount of its fans haven't put more than a couple of hours into any of the games in the series.